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What is the difference in character between Eb7-37 and Ga1-20? The latter (moe according to Metoro) I have in my mind come to think of as a 'tired old bird', yet there may be a strictly astronomical meaning conveyed by moe, possibly 'going down at the horizon in the west' (setting). In Eb7-37 the globular body without legs cannot mean 'standing high', and the hands are held down to the earth - could it mean down in the earth? Looking in the glyph catalogue I find the following somewhat similar glyphs:
The 3 C-glyphs and Sb7-227 have their hands inwards, which ought to mean something else. The opposite of 'standing high' with hands raised high above (zenith) is nadir - as far down as possible. The idea is strengthened by the pair Aa7-50--51, where pure presumably means 'the lifeless world':
Eb8-26 (note the numbers!) I connect with Da4-102 (though the hand gestures indicate a different 'station'):
One hand down and one up in Da4-110 is similar to one fist down and one up in Eb8-27 and Da4-111 seems to be close in meaning to Eb8-29. Two fishes up (Da4-103 and Da4-107), meaning 'life', are followed by two glyphs indicating 'death' (Da4-108 and Da4-112). Da4-111 and the pair Eb7-38 and Eb8-29 are located at the dark time in the cycle.
*Ka1-24 together with *Ka1-22 are similar to Da4-111:
Here in the Translations it is possible - by going deeper and broader and compare with other facts - to confirm what is stated in the glyph dictionary. Yet, new problems show up: What is the connection between the standing ragi in Da4-109 and tara? I have - so far - registered no similar glyph in the catalogue. The last page of those from the hyperlink 'here' (intended to show how tara glyphs are associated with glyphs like Eb8-29 and Eb7-38):
In the K text (I have stated earlier) we must not identify such glyphs as Kb1-13 and Kb4-18 (which include tao) with such glyphs as Ka1-202 and Kb4-10 (which instead have marama):
Kb1-9 is a special case, with neither tao nor marama but tapa mea. I associate tapa mea with sun, while tao seems to have the qualities of the pregnant earth mother. I imagine the two 'sails' refer to the two half-years, while three 'sails' may point at the sun. Ka1-202 and Kb4-10 - with marama and three 'sails' - could mean another stage, when sun is carried away. Kb4-10 is the first glyph in 29th period:
Ka1-202 is at the beginning of the text (and, presumably, of the cycle), while Kb4-10 is at the end. End and beginning are close. In Keiti there are no glyphs like the '2-sail marama' glyphs in K, and the only instances with '2 sails' are Eb1-7 and Eb2-1:
Both these glyphs are connected with the concept of beginning, I think, and most interesting: the high position of the two 'sails' in Eb1-7 is exactly like that in Ka1-205:
This is intriguing. At the beginning of side b in E we recognize a glyph located at the beginning of side a in K. Let us look at the beginning of side b in E:
Counting long the distance from Eb1-7 to Eb2-1 results in 36 glyphs, and we can recognize some similarities between e.g. Ea9-31 and Eb1-42, Ea9-29 and Eb1-42, Ea9-27 and Eb1-40:
Eb2-1 is the 7th glyph in the 1st period (containing 20 glyphs) in the calendar in E. |